Zutiefst erschüttert und sehr unglücklich.
Deeply shocked and very upset.
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Sie war am Boden zerstört, als er ging. — She was devastated when he left.
Sie bauten die verwüstete Stadt wieder auf. — They rebuilt the devastated city.
Nach dem Gespräch sah er völlig am Boden zerstört aus. — He looked completely devastated after the interview.
Ganze Häuserblöcke blieben nach dem Feuer verwüstet zurück. — Whole blocks were left devastated by the fire.
Ich wäre untröstlich, wenn ich diese Fotos verlöre. — I'd be devastated to lose those photos.
Der verwüstete Hafen blieb monatelang geschlossen. — The devastated harbor stayed closed for months.
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Download the app for free German vocabulary testA ready-made phrase, not a single word: am Boden zerstört, “destroyed on the ground”. German uses it exactly where English uses devastated about a person, and like the English it lives in the passive — man ist am Boden zerstört, not something destroys you that way.
The image is an aviation one: aircraft destroyed on the ground, before they ever took off. That origin has faded entirely, and no German hears it any more. The blunter everyday alternative is fix und fertig, “done and finished”.
fix und fertig done in, wrecked
Covers exhaustion as well as grief, where am Boden zerstört is only the emotional blow.
verzweifelt desperate
About the loss of hope rather than about the blow itself.
zerstört destroyed
Of a place, plain and literal. About a person it needs am Boden in front of it.
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